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CITY HALL DEDICATON 



AND 



HALLOWELL REUNION, 



WITH 



ORATION, POEM, LETTERS, 



AND REGISTER OF VISITORS. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1899. 



hallowell: 

register press. 

1899. 



The purpose of this little pamphlet is to preserve in suit- 
able form the main features of the Hallowell Reunion, 
celebrated Wednesday July 12, in connection with the ded- 
ication of the new and beautiful City Hall, the gift of tin- 
late Mrs. Eliza (Mark Lowell. The happy conception of a 
reunion was adopted by the Hallowell Improvement So- 
ciety, and carried to a most successful termination. May 
this first Reunion lead to others, equally pleasant and 
profitable. 



DEDICATION OF THE CITY HALL. 



The services of the day began with the dedication of the 
beautiful City Hall at 2.30 P. M. As with all important 
functions, the hour was of necessity somewhat delayed, but 
the moments passed most pleasantly, Hon. James H. 
Leigh, chairman of the building committee, presided. The 
honored guests were Governor Powers, Hon. J. W. Brad- 
bury, Adjt. Gen. Richards, and Prof. C. F. Richardson, 
the orator of the day. 

The order of exercises in detail was as follows: — 

March — 'Hands Across the Sea," Soitsa 

Dennis' Orchestra. 
Singing, Chorus of School Children 

Prayer, Rev. D. E. Miller 

( )verture — * •Ungarische Lustspiel," Keler-Bela 

I )eunis' Orchestra. 
Presentation of Keys. Mr. Ben Tenney 

Acceptance of Same, Mayor G. A. Safford 

Vocal Selection, Miss Mountfort 

Poem of Welcome, Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt 

Oration — "Civic Virtue," Prof. C. F. Richardson 

Selection The Serenade," Victor Herbert 

Dennis' Orchestra. 
Singing — "Auld Lang Syne," Audience 

A Hunting Scene — Descriptive, Bucalossi 

Dennis' Orchestra. 

Mr. Ben Tenney, of the Building Committee, in well- 
chosen words, presented the keys of the new hall to Mayor 
George A. Safford, as the representative of the city's in- 
terests. Mayor Safford's Address of Acceptance gives a 
merited tribute to Mrs. Eliza Clark Lowell, with consider- 
able historical matter relating to the city and the new hall. 



Mayor Safford*b Address. 

The pleasant duty has been assigned to me, and by the 
trenerous suffrage of our citizens I have been honored with 
the position of accepting for them and in their name this 
splendid testimonial of the esteem and affection of a noble- 
hearted woman for her native city: and by the authority of 
the City Council of the city of Hallowed in me vested I do 
accept for them and in the name of the city of Hallowed 
this city hall, the gift of Mrs. Eliza (Mark Lowell. In so 
doing permit me to assure you of our appreciation of the ob- 
ligation we owe to the generous woman whom you repre- 
sent. 

This is indeed a joyous occasion. Not only do we today 
dedicate one of the finest public buildings in the State, a 
gift unincumbered by conditions or restraints except the 
oft-repeated hope that we shall sufficiently appreciate it to 
keep it clean and respectable, but also are we permitted to- 
day to extend the warm hand of welcome to a large number 
of former residents, who attest their love for our little city 
and the regard for its citizens by assembling in so large 
numbers and assisting in these services. Yet I doubt not 
there conies to the heart and mind of every person present 
deep and sincere sorrow that she who made this occasion 
and this building possible could not have been permitted by 
Him who doeth all things for the best to meet with us to- 
dav, to personally receive the expressions of esteem, affec- 
tion and appreciation from our people, in whom she took 
so kindly an interest. 

That her earnest wish could not have been consummated, 
with the pleasure to which she looked forward with such 
keen interest, of meeting and knowing more intimately the 
citizens of a town in which she had lived practically all her 
life, and which she loved with a depth of affection truly 
wonderful to see, is to be deeply regretted. Modest in her 
desires, unassuming in her character and with no thought 
for display, Mrs. Lowell wished that you should dedicate 



V. 




Mayor Geo. A. Safford. 



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this building to her God, her city and her family name — a 
name in which she took just pride; a name which lias been 
interwoven in the history of this city since its inception, a 
name which is symbolical of thai sturdy, honest New Eng- 
land character, of which we are all so proud: a name which 
she would perpetuate for years to come by this memorial 
building. "Build it good and strong, that it may stand for 
the years to come." was her oft-repeated admonition to me: 
and her instructions have been carefully carried out. 

Tradition and history agree that the first settlers of 
the Hallowed of to-day. the Hook as it was called, were 
her ancestors. Deacon Pease Clark and son Peter, who 
moved their families here in 1762, although undoubtedly 
coi'iiing here prospecting at a much earlier date — about 
17o2. They landed from the vessel which brought them 
here nearly opposite the Currier tavern lot and passed their 
first night in their new home under the body of a cart 
which they had brought with them: the next day a camp 
of boughs was built near the present site of the cotton 
factory and later boards were rafted from the Cobbossee 
settlement, now Gardiner, and the first house in Hallowed 
was built on the sight now occupied by ('apt. G. S John- 
son's residence. The tracts of land which they had secured 
were .")() rods wide each and extending from the river back 
one mile included the strip extending from Academy 
south to about Grove street. 

The Hallowed of those days, though having but few in- 
habitants, was of large area, extending from Bowman's 
Point, where the Berlin Mills saw mill is now located, in 
Farmingdale, back from the river, on the east side, five 
miles, thence north nine miles, thence west live miles, to 
the river, and on the west side extending west about five 
miles, thence south to a point near Hammond's, the old 
stone bound between Hallowed and Winthrop still stand- 
ing, then following the east side of the Cobbosseecontee or 
Great Pond to the outlet, and down the stream and east to 



the first-mentioned point — embracing a territory of about 
90 square miles, while today we have but four square miles. 
From this original territory have come iu part or wholly the 
city of Augusta, which was separated from its parent town in 
17!>7: the towns of Chelsea, Farmingdale, West Gardiner 
and Manchester. During one of these slicing processes by 
the Legislature, our representative. Judge Gilman, whom 
most of the older persons remember, in protesting against 
a further reduction of our territory, remarked in his charac- 
teristically (piaint manner that, when death overtook him, 
he hoped sufficient territory would be left of the town to 
receive his long form so that one part would not have to 
rest in another town. 

For several years Mrs. Lowell had had under considera- 
tion some suitable present to our city, and about two years 
ago it was my pleasure to be apprised of her wish to pre- 
sent to the city a new city hall, and 1 was requested to pro- 
cure for her consideration, plans and specifications, em- 
bodying certain suggestions which she wished incorporated 
in the new building. I at once complied with her request 
and submitted the preliminary sketches for her approval, 
from which, with a few changes, the plans for the present 
edifice were made, and Hon. James 1L Leigh, Ben Tenney 
and myself were selected by her as a board of trustees to 
superintend its construction, with authority to contract for 
its erection. The sum of $18,000, including dividends, was 
placed in our hands. We contracted with the Hallowell 
Granite Works for the erection of the building for the -urn 
of $17,500, not including the heating or wiring and piping 
for light. I informed Mrs. Lowell that at least $2000 
more would be necessary, which was accordingly given tons. 
As the work progressed it was found that from $3000 to 
84000 more would be needed to furnish and to add certain 
extras which the City Council deemed advisable. I informed 
Mrs. Lowell and was assured by her that the same should be 
forthcoming, but before she had opportunity to carry out 



her intentions she was taken sick and was never after able 
to attend to business. 

I feel that I should be remiss in my duty should I suffer 
this opportunity to pass without expressing- for the trustees 
our deep appreciation of the earnest, honest efforts of the 
contractors, the Hallowell Granite Works, and the sub- 
contractors, Messrs. Nathaniel Noyes «fc Son and L. H. 
Haines, to give to our city not only a handsome building 
but a finely finished one. Our architect, Mr. J. Me Arthur 
Vance, assured me that the work throughout has been of 
the very best, characterized by the most skillful workman- 
ship and careful attention to details, and that it would be 
difficult to duplicate this building- with its class of work- 
manship for $30,000. 

Fellow citizens, I can but feel that we have been most 
kindly favored in the past. Friends who dearly love our 
little city have been most generous toward us. We have 
good churches, good schools, a fine and well equipped pub- 
lic library and a city building- that compares favorably with 
any in the State. Duties and responsibilities rest upon us. 
These friends of our city ask and of a right expect that we 
shall be careful, honest guardians of these trusts reposed in 
us : that we shall ever keep our old home in a manner that 
will reflect credit upon us and honor upon the name they 
love so well, the name of Hallowell. 



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THE DEDICATORY ADDRESS. 



Prof. Charles F. Richardson, of Dartmouth, was warm- 
ly greeted by Hallowell friends. His address received the 
closest attention, from the first to the closing word. The 
abstract presented was from brief notes, and does not do full 
justice to the merits of the oration. Prof. Richardson's 
theme was : 

"Civic Virtue." 

••1 am a citizen of no mean city," said the apostle, and 
this thought must have been in the mind of that venerable, 
devout and far-seeing- benefactor whose memory we revere 
today, and whose gift we would make, for us and our suc- 
cessors, a help toward all that tends to develop and elevate 
the ancient town we love. The heritage of Hallowell is 
rich indeed: and nothing - , perhaps, may more fitly gather 
or symbolize its memories and its hopes than this building. 
devoted to all ends befitting- its civic life and its municipal 
control. In these dedicatory services our thoughts find 
expression not only in the felicitous poem by my school- 
mate, which we have just enjoyed, but also in those tit lines 
by another honored poet and daughter of Hallowell. written 
for another building not less truly devoted to the well-being' 
of the city by the river. 

Hail! to the newly risen fane that waits 

AVith all the future beckoning at its door. 
Hail! to the tread of countless eager feet, 

That come and go the symphony to swell : 
Hail and farewell! unto the phantoms sweet 

That haunt thy shades, beloved Hallowell. 
Fair olden city on the river's shore, 

Thou through a measured century hast kept 
The grand inheritance our fathers bore, 

When to thy wilds across the seas they swept. 

••A nation's greatness lies in men not acres." said John 
Boyle O'Reilly in one of his best poems; and the remark 
surely applies to what. I believe, is territorially the smallest 




Prof. Chas. F. Richardson. 



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municipality in America.. I promise to be brief and there- 
fore I leave to the more eloquent tongues and the more ac- 
curate memories of those who are to speak later to call the 
roll of honor and unfold the treasures of reminiscence; but 
it is impossible not to feel and to say that here and now we 
are encompassed, as it were, by a great crowd of invisible 
witnesses, whose names are at once a text and a sermon. 
"Hallowell," says Edward Abbott in his biographical 
sketch of his father Jacob, the most voluminous and pop- 
ular of our own authors — who, if he had written nothing 
els;-, could never be forgotten because of Abraham Lincoln's 
remark that he got all the history he ever knew from Ab- 
bott's biographies— "Hallowell, at the beginning of this 
century, was one of the marked and promising towns of 
Maine. Not only was it a convenient post of observation 
for one who had interests in the interior to watch and 
gitkie, but its situation as the shipping port for the towns 
along the Kennebec valley gave it some commercial impor- 
tance. It was, moreover, even at this early day, the seat 
of a remarkably select society, included in which were fam- 
ilies of rare personal qualities and the highest cultivation. 
Among these were the Wildes, the Wingates, the Pages, 
the Perleys, the Moodys and the Dummers. The family 
which, perhaps, gave the most distinction to Hallowell was 
that of the Vaughans in its several branches." 

I cannot mention all the other names that spring to mind: 
(Mark. Merrick, Wild, Hubbard, Nburse, Goodale, Cheever, 
Glazier. Gilman, Lowell, Dole, Willey, Spaulding, Evans, 
Grant, Paine. Gardiner, Wall, Otis, Fuller, Merrill, Baker, 
Cole, Nye, Smith. Stickney, Flagg, or the Captains, Cap- 
tain Watts, Captain Snow. Captain E. Cooper, Captain L. 
Cooper, Captains Agry, Kimball, Gray, McClintock, Wells, 
as numerous as the dukes of Edom, listed in the Bible. Of 
most we suv, in the words of our gentlest American singer: 

"They are no longer here, they are all gone 
Into the land of shadows." 

But we may also add, with the change of a single word, 

k ' Honor and reverence and the good repute 
That follows faithful service as its fruit 
Be unto them whom living we salute." 

Such men as these were Hallowell, and some of them 
thought they saw the possible fulfilment, here in our own 



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streets, of dreams of commercial greatness. Their con 
merce, in Burke's famous phrase, "whitened the distai 
seas;" but, move particularly, their position at the head c 
Kennebec tide-water, al the time of the close of the 'Ha 
( lentury of ( Jonflict" and the subsequenl Revolution, seeme 
to promise great things. Edward A. Kimball, an Englis 
traveller of a century agone, wrote in the third volume * 
hi> experiences : 

••In winter when the inhabitants can travel on the snow 
the lower streets are thronged with traffike^s and thei 
sleighs. (A local name for sledge learned from the Dutcl 
Colonists.) Ilallowell i> the natural emporium of a va- 
n-art of country. I found it asserted here that from th< 
configuration of the country, the commerce of the uppe 
Connecticut belongs to this place. Hallowell even hope 
to dispute with Montreal and Quebec, in the commerce o 
the new settlements in lower Canada, on the heads of th 
Connecticut and to the northward of New Hampshire am 
Vermont. Portland, which Hallowell hopes wholly t<i 
rival enjoys some portion of the Canadian commerce, bu 
this is owing probably only to the want of roads betwee? 
the new settlements and the banks of the Saint Lawrence 
Bui Hallowell has still better prospects in the immediate 
continuity of a fine grazing country." 

An article in the American Encyclopedia, issued in L80| 
state- that Hallowell i> the natural head of Kennel>e< 

navigation; thai it is a better distributing point forCanad] 
than Portland, and is sure to be one of the largest Ameri 
can cities. The same encyclopedia, in it> article on N«\\ 
York, says that it will not keep growing, for if it should 
by the end of the century its population would he moil 
than 700,0110, too many by far for Manhattan to hold 
These two statements are eloquent of the encyclopedia") 
foresight and sagacity. 

Hallowell has failed of its founder's dreams. The bridg] 
at Augusta, the location of the State Capital in the samj 
place, the dam. sometimes uttered with more vigor thai 
befitted its meaning, other growth of certain industries in 
Gardiner, the "back route," the Kennebec Central: thesl 



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are all r<*~ j >< » r i - i I »I " ■ in -<>ni'' measure f<>r the city's short- 
coming. 1 » 1 1 1 \\'' feel like 8 serene and gracious old 
mother looking at more successful children and grand 
children. We have nothing "t the apologetic attitude. 
Like Margaret Fuller, we accept the universe, and are con- 
i « • ii t w ii h <»nr tn\ ironmeul . 

M \ theme is Civic Virtue, m subject appropriate to ih>' 
time and the occasion. Especial!} appropriate, as we are 
i<»-i|;i\ dedicating s new cih nail i<> municipal virtue and 

Jm dil hi ! ||| >l|i'-! \ . 

••< « * 1 1 — | * i • -ii< m> as i~ the Anglo-Saxon for lii- devotion to 
law, lie strives for ii uol :i« an end, l>ui ;i- an instrumeu- 
t.-i lii \ in securing hin well-being and bringing aboul progress 

:iin I <i\ i li/,ii ion .*" 

I quote this passage from Met .-ill because ii is :i m<'-' 
succinct statement "i the reason "i our splendid civilization. 
The Anglo-Saxon has iw<» prominent characteristics, grit 
and the power ol assimilation. 101. Demolius, in his 
** Anglo-Saxon Superiority : \> > What is I < I)ue? ,; where he 
raises and answers the question in the title, says that the 
Anglo-Saxon race is all-conquering and all-powerful be- 
cause ii rears it- children i" indei>endent thiuking and 
independent action; and that ii" other people has kept in 
-n<-li close touch with the times and has such prosi>ects i<>i 
tlie future. But I must define what I mean bj Ai. 
Saxon. w e are all foreign immigrants. There is no pure 
blooded American in ilii- hall to-day, no North American 
Indian. We who have lived here for two generations are 
Anglo-Saxons b) virtue "t assimilation. As serious as 
race problems are, as marked as are the differences between 
section and section, yet our nation is far more unified than 
in 1699 or 17'.''.'. There are no better Americans than 
those whose names, ol man) descents, are inscribed on 
j ' uider monument . 

James Bryce, in his book on the American Common- 
wealth, says that the one weak point in our government 



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is our manner of municipal control, [f this is true the 
fault of the failure is ours. His criticism applies only to 
the large cities,, and in our small community the municipal 
is practically a town government. So small a community 
must serve as a civic training school. Ralph Waldo 
Emerson says that if we wish to find Americans we must 
leave Boston. New York or Chicago, and visit the smaller 
towns and the town-meeting, where every voter has an 
opportunity to share in the disposal of events. Lowell, in 
his "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago/" speaks of one old man 
who was very careful in his inspection of the candidates 
brought before the town-meeting and would vote for tit 
men only, however humble the office. Lowell adds that he 
would rather be defeated by vote of such a man. than obtain 
office without his franchise . What better citizens and Amer- 
icans than those whom I have named, or mayors of our own. 
like Rufus K.Page, who came from shipping ownership, or 
Simon Page, who left large manufacturing interests, or 
John H. Lowell, James H. Leigh, and Augustine Lord, 
from business, P. F. Sanborn from finance, J. R. Bodwell 
from large affairs in many parts of Maine, and E. Rowel I 
from editorial life or official service. 

But what of the future? We must not simply glory in 
the past, nor must we cry "Ichabod," like the '-ancient men" 
who failed to see the beauty of the new temple, because of 
their love for the old. New duties have come with the 
new centurv. If we have loved the old academy, the high 
school takes its place. The old publishing houses that 
made Hallowell a literary centre have passed, but the 
public library offers its wealth of printed matter to every 
one. If the old families are gone, the assimilation and 
Americanization of foreigners is going on continually : each 
element helps. We have not failed hitherto and we shall 
not fail in the future. Our children should be taught that a 
civic responsibility rests upon them. Let righteousness 
and intelligence enter into and elevate every relation of 



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citizenship and municipal life, and make the village or 
small city the radiating centre of the widest and most 
wholesome influences, for we arc looking for nothing less 
than "the progress of mankind onward and upward for- 
ever." Is this visionary, impracticable? 

The time spirit, so far as it affects the intellectual life of 
a people, is simply the intelligence of man dominated by a 
high purpose. The countrymen of Franklin, Washington, 
Jefferson and Webster do not need to be reminded that the 
brain is the servant of the soul, not less in politics than in 
art. The history of the United States is the history of the 
evolution of ideas, and ideas are the offspring of the 
individual mind and not necessarily the conspicuous mind. 

The Spectator, which of all the London political press 
has the broadest and deepest appreciation of American 
social forces, sagely said, in the middle of our war of 1898, 
''Puritanism, stripped of its impossible dogmas, humanized, 
and — we may add — moralized, is one of the supreme 
forces of American life, underlying all the 'sensual and 
avaricious' tendencies on which Matthew Arnold spoke so 
freely to the American people. The school master and the 
preacher are, in short, the two factors in highest esteem, 
and these, when America 'finds her soul.' will always be 
found topmost in her social fabric, the real unacknowl- 
edged aristocracy of American life. So long as this re- 
mains true, the vessel of American democracy may be 
beaten about by the tierce tempests which must come, but 
she will not go under." 

May 1 try to emphasize this statement with words 
spoken elsewhere? I have lately had occasion to study the 
place of sentiment in the intellectual life. It has no 
smaller place in the civic life. The many, inspired by 
sentiment, must live their art instead of painting it, or 
carving it, or writing it. The intellectual life, after all, is 
the follower not less than the shaper of the actual life that 
is lived by men and women in this world of daily doings. 



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Often the commonplace rises into the poetic It was 
only last year, as yon all remember, that the wooden 
steamship "Delaware" was destroyed by tire when off 
the Port of Philadelphia. As soon as the outbreak was 
discovered, and il was seen to be impossible to subdue it. 
Captain Ingram formed the sailors in a double line and 
without any hurry passed the women and children to the 
boats, each being given a blanket; while he himself stood 
at the head of the line and threatened to shoot the first 
person who started a panic But not one craven soul ap- 
peared. As a result of his coolness and discipline, all the 
passengers were safely placed in the boats, and only then 
did the captain and crew take to the ship's rafts. The tire 
started about halt-past ten. and twenty minutes later the 
vessel blew up, for the --Delaware" had on board a large 
quantity of ammunition for the fortifications at the en- 
trance to the harbor. --The contrast of this behavior witli 
that of the French and Italians on the 'Bourgogne," 
said the most cynical of English weeklies, --is em- 
phasized by one little incident that has since come to light. 
A lady with a child tried to get out of the line and hurry 
to the aanii'wav. -You needn't hurry, ma'am.' said a 
sailor, -we're American seamen and will see that all the 
women and children get off." 

Heroes and the heroic are with us still, as was proved by 
that recent war, which forever, let us hope, banished sec- 
tional strife from our own borders, and at the same time 
made us a colonial power beyond the seas. That war. af- 
ter all. was a war of sentiment, or. as it has been aptly 
called, of --national disinterestedness." God pity the na- 
tion that is not dominated by mind: hut its mind should be 
led by national and international ethics. Ethics without 
feeling is but the shell of that righteousness which exalteth 
a nation. --It is not unfortunate," said a not over-hasty 
organ of thought at the very beginning of the Spanish- 
American conflict, "that a country should be swayed by 



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sentiment, if it has also in its temperament the power of re- 
serve and reason. It has been said concerning art — and it 
applies as well to statesmanship — that there is nothing' like 
a 'warm heart and a cool head." -*ln fact," says an Eng- 
lish critic of our recent struggle, "is not the lesson of all 
recent warfare that personal valor is as great today as it 
ever was? Even in the (ineco-T urkish war. in which 
Greece was hopelessly worsted, it is conceded that the 
Greeks fought bravelv, and that the Turks won through 
superior force and generalship — not because they were any 
braver than the foes whom they conquered, as a fact, with 
an ease that seemed almost ridiculous. Battles, therefore. 
are not lost or won because of any wealth or lack of cour- 
age: all men do not tight equally well, as we need hardly 
say. but in these days, which pessimists call ji>t-de-siecle. 
with some sort of idea that the phrase indicates a weariness 
and weakening of purpose, it is refreshing to reflect that 
men are as ready as ever to put their lives into risk at the 
call of duty." History is but the condensed biography of 
thousands; and thus, as I have said, the zeal of the mani- 
folded one becomes the spirit of the time. Indeed, at this 
very day, ('apt. S. S. Long (English) on American sol- 
diers in Luzon says: "In spite of defective administrative 
staff and departments, insufficient equipment, and officers 
who possessed little if any more military training than the 
privates, the volunteer troops displayed a spirit of intelli- 
gence and obedience, combined with an individual willing- 
ness to perform their duty, that might be rivalled, but could 
not be surpassed by the finest disciplined troops. They 
might be described as a great military paradox — a body of 
men of magnificent physique, possessing a perfect disci- 
pline, and yet without any discipline at all." 

Looking backward as well as forward. 1 know the fringe 
of crime in New England, but I also remember the rum 
groceries, which flourished even in my boyhood, the dis- 
tilleries, the lotteries and the illegitimacy-. Our day has 



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seen improved sanitation and longevity — for proof of which 
one has but to look at the older tombstones in our grave- 
yards. I believe in the future, and I believe in the present. 
He who is a pessimist i< incorrect in his impressions. A 
little hit from "Life." a sentence of terse philosophy, will 
apply here: "The present is the future from which we 
hoped so much." In that present, civic virtue is the appli- 
cation of the honesty of the one to the service of the many, 
not necessarily for or in war. hut right here, in our small- 
est towns even. 

That you may hear how the opposite side sounds. I will 
read a brutally frank statement written by a former United 
States Senator. None of us, however, believe it. 

••The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. 
Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. 
Parties are the armies. The Decalogue and the (xolden 
Pule have no place in a political campaign. The object is 
success. To defeat the antagonist and to expel the party in 
power is the purpose. In war it is lawful to deceive the 
adversary, to hire Hessians, to kill, to destroy. The com- 
mander who lost a battle through the activity of his moral 
nature would be the derision and jest of history. This 
modern cant about the corruption of politics is fatiguing in 
the extreme.'' He meams to say that it makes him tired. 
••It proceeds from the tea-custard and syllabub dilettante- 
ism, the frivolous desultory sentimentalism of epicenes." 

I venture upon no political discussion. I care not who 
you may be, Republican or Democrat, but never forget that 
the State is but you, and you, and you, and I. There is no 
other sum total of wisdom, or strength, or money. Purifi- 
cation can be done, has been done, is done, will be done, if 
we in municipal politics, in the caucus, at the polls, in civil 
service, in foreign service, do just one man's duty, and do 
the whole of it all the time. No more sensible statement 
has been made of late years than that of one of our honored 
ex-Presidents, "It is the duty of the citizen to support the 



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government, not that of the government to support the cit- 
izen." This is the American citizen's version of the French 
king's "The State, it is [." 

Von will recollect the Greek fable of the giant who goi 
strength from the soil. So we, not giants but children 
still, gain strength from the soil we love. Our foot is on 
our native heath, and our name is McGregor. We hail you 
as loyal sons and daughters, for we are you and you are 
we, and we thank you for your welcome and your hospi- 
tality. We leave you with a tender an revoir, auf weider- 
sehen. till we meet again. 

*•() blessed hills) your rugged ways 
Grow fair with Heaven's sunsel lights. 

Ye throng with saints of other days 
Borne on to glory from your heights. 

While soft the twilight breezes swell 
O'er the dear hills of Hall.. well." 



POEM OF WELCOME. 



MRS. ANNA SARUENT HUNT. 



♦•Long enough have I pined for my children 
Who have wandered this earth up and down. 
I will bid them come back to the home nest." 
Said the quiet old Hallowell town. 
4k I must know how they fare on life's journey. 
For the storms have been many and wild. 
Oh! the mother-heart aches for the tidings 
Of her absent and well-beloved child. 

"Who just now will send out the glad message 
Over mountain and prairie and sea? 
And. oh, who in the summer time beauty. 
Will return all my children to me?" 
Ah! not all will come back at the bidding. 
For beneath the green branches, they say. 
With the bird songs above and around them. 
Rest some brave hearts and true hearts today. 



IS 

"I have patiently watched for the coming 
Of the long straying ones from the home 
Till the waiting brings wearisome vigils. 
And I sigh for the children that roam. 
It may be that the world, like a charmer. 
Has entangled them all in her snares. 
Is there never a voice that will summon 
Ev'ry one who for mother love cares?" 

Then the river, that sparkled so brightly 

In the years long agone as today, 

Said, "Come back to my shores, oh ye pilgrims. 

For a little be blithesome and gay. 

I will sing- you the songs of your childhood. 

When the future seemed boundless and grand. 

You will tell me youth's dreaming- is ended. 

As confronting- life's duties you stand." 

Aw an echo repeats some sweet story. 
The "Cascade." in its frolicsome glee. 
Rippled over the rocks the old summons. 
"I am waiting', come quickly to me!" 
And the hills said, "Return to our shelter. 
For as changeless and sure is our love 
As the granite we hold in our bosoms, 
And the sun that shines down from above." 

Then from steeple to steeple the church bells 

Talked together one day and they said : 

"Let us call the old friends, and it may be 

That their footsteps will hither be led. 

AVe have rung for their ears all the changes 

Of the joys and the sorrows of life." 

"Come away! come away! will they hear us? 

Come and rest from earth's struggle and strife!" 

Then there rose a strange mingling of voices, 
*<0 come back, we have missed you so long. 
And not once are you ever forgotten, 
'Mid the little ones' laughter and song." 
"Twas the calling of many a school room. 
Long deserted by some who have found 
That their lives, like the schooldays of childhood, 
Often seem a most wearisome round. 

Now the people said, "Come, and delay not, 
For we anxiously watch your return, 



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And in token of fellowship lasting 

Do our altar-tires cheerily burn. 

Sweetest roses in summer time blooming, 

Fairest lilies of delicate hue. 

In their fragrance breathe out the glad welcome 

That our hearthstone has waiting for yon.'* 

Thus it was that the mother sent bidding 

To the ones she had cherished of old, 

And the wings of the wind swiftly bore it 

Till the story of longing was told — 

Thus it was that the arms that had cradled 

Many children in tenderest care, 

All expectant reached out to enfold them 

With the joy that none other can share. 

And what answer came back through the distance . 

Like the chiming of clear-sounding bells? 

Many voices, as one, raise a chorus 

That a volume of tenderness tells: 

••We are coming, for dear are the home ties 

To the Sons and the Daughters who roam, 

And most sweet are the menf ries that linger 

Of our happy old Ilallowell home." 

You are come, and right royal the welcome 

That we give you while truly we pray 

On your hearts may fall sweet benediction 

In the joys of this midsummer day. 

Pleasant milestone we pass on life's journey. 

All illumined with earth's truest love, 

While we look for the meeting and greeting 

In the blessed reunion above. 



THE VAUGHAN RECEPTION. 



The greater part of the large audience present passed di- 
rectly from the Dedication Exercises to the Vaughan Home- 
stead, where was celebrated one of the pleasantest features 
of the Reunion. Messrs. Benjamin and W. W. Vaughan 
threw open their spacious grounds and royally entertained 
the large and happy company. Mrs. Benj. Vaughan and 
Mrs. W. W. Vaughan were most gracious in the welcome 
and entertainment extended. Indeed, the Reunion, as ;i 
whole, was largely indebted to the family for generous co- 
operation in this and other ways. 



HALLOWELL REUNION. 



The exercises of the afternoon were most enjoyable, hut 
those of the evening gave better opportunity for exchange 
of greetings and reminiscence, with renewal of acquaint- 
ances and friendships. 

Fully seven hundred people thronged into the new hull 
before 8.30. Certainly the happy suggestion of Mr. Alvin 
Fowles, of Auburn, and Mrs. Dr. C. T. Fisk. of Lewiston, 
received most generous returns. 

The Reception Committee included Mayor Sufford and 
wife. Mr. and Mrs. James Atkins. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. 
Vaughan, Miss Annie F. Page, and Miss Elizabeth G. Otis. 
For a half hour and more, introductions were in order. 

At 9 o'clock, W. F. Marston, as Master of the Literary 
Exercises, in behalf of the committees of the Reunion and 
citizens warmly welcomed the visitors to Hailowell. 

The program of exercises was us follows: — 

REUNION EXERCISES. 

( ) YERTiRE— ' < Light Cavalry." Suppe 

Dennis* Orchestra 
Address of Welcome, W. F. Marston 

"Hailowell as It is To-day," Thomas Leigh 

SELECTION — "Cotton Blossoms." Hall 

Dennis* Orchestra 
"Hailowell and Its Possibilities." AW W. Vaughan 

"Our Schooldays," Frof. A. M. Thomas 

"Literary Hailowell," Rev. Dr. Butler 

SEEE( 'TIOX — ••American Fantasie." Bendix 

Dennis" Orchestra 
^Hailowell in the War," Gen. George H. Nye 

••Reminiscences," Maj. E. Rowell 

""What Should Our Birthplace Mean to Us?" 

Rev. D. E. Miller 
rTXALE — "Tally Ho." Bernstieii Dennis' Orchestra 



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We append the responses to the toasts presented. 
HALLOWELL AS IT IS TODAY. 

THOMAS LEIGH. 



Mr. President, Ladies a ml Gent/emeu: 

It is to me indeed, exceedingly gratifying on this most 
happy occasion, to be allowed the pleasing task of replying 
to the Toast. "Hallowell, as She is Today." Efallo'well 
lias had a glorious history: its past is full of achievements; 
its sons and daughters, here, everywhere have by their 
worth, by their attainments, by their devotion to duty and 
right, brought credit and fame to our dear old city. ( )n 
the occasion of this reunion, of the dedication of this beauti- 
ful vitv building, the gift of a noble and generous woman, 
sons and daughters of Hallowell, from near and afar, in 
spirit, if not in tact, place upon the brow of the city of their 
birth the laurel wreath of love and devotion, first for what 
she has been to them, then for what she is and ever will he 
in the unfolding of the years. 

But I am asked to say something of Hallowell as she is 
today. For one, I never was prouder than \ am today of 
the place of my birth. Mark the progressive spirit of her 
citizenship, the temper and kindly hospitality of her people, 
the industry and integrity of her business men, the push, 
the ability, the enterprise of her young men, all working 
together for the common good, tin' prosperity of the whole 
community. Such are the qualities that go to make up the 
citizens of Hallowell. No wonder, then, that we today re- 
joice and are made glad, not only for what Hallowell has 
been and what her sons and daughters have achieved, but 
what Hallowell is today, what her children are winning and 
reaping now, to their own credit and to the honor of the 
city of their birth and adoption. 

This reunion, which we have today so much enjoyed, 
gives those returning, after years of absence, to their na- 
tive city, as well as those still resident, an opportunity to 
recall the past, renew old associations, make new friends, 
and above all else to keep alive the love for their old home, 
made sacred by memories of days long since gone. But. 
ladies and gentlemen, friends and citizens, how does Hal- 
lowell look to you today? You who have returned to par- 
ticipate in these exercises, do you note any changes in the 



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<yood old city? Yes, you must : our city lias been moving 
on and changing with the progress of events. This mag- 
nificent city building, modern, convenient, fully equipped, 
sitting here at the junction of these streets, is an ornamenl 
to the city, a tribute to a worthy and public spirited woman. 

T should be certainly unmindful of the happy privilege I 
now enjoy should I pass by unnoticed the modern hotel 
across the way, in which every citizen takes pride and sat- 
isfaction. I doubt if it has a superior in the State, and >o 
well is it managed that today it is doing a splendid business. 

Our city has the satisfaction of knowing that it today 
owns and operates its own water system : through the fore- 
sight and energy of its own citizens this has been of late 
accomplished. This is indicative of Hallowell tendency, 
progressive, forward and up to date, guarding safely its 
own interests and the welfare of its inhabitants. Our city 
can today boast of a beautiful public library, the gift or- 
iginally to the city of a distinguished and loyal Fon, who 
has never, in all that fortune and merit have brought to 
him. forgotten the place of his birth. We honor him today 
as he has honored himself in his life and attainments. 
Again we pay homage to Mrs. Lowell's marvelous liber- 
ality, which resulted in the enlarged library building, and 
to her again, for in her last will and testament she has per- 
manently endowed it. This splendid edifice of the Hallo- 
well of today stands as a monument of those who have 
loved our city in the past and whose deeds of generosity 
and love will ever live in the memories of those who fol- 
low after. 

We have in our city to-day both a Humane Society and 
an Improvement? Society. This last has created so pro- 
found a public sentiment in favor of order that the guile- 
less stranger may not even cast down a banana peel with- 
out reproof. Hallowell has always been a literary centre, 
but to-day all our literary advantages are free. The poor- 
est child can have every advantage, in our fine system of 
public schools, that family and wealth can make possible 
to her children. They tell us of a bridge across the beauti- 
ful river in olden days of HallowelPs prominence as a cen- 
tre of trade for the whole surrounding country. To-day 
we have our finely equipped street railway, which not 
only brings us trade but makes our city very desirable for 
residence. Through the flourishing industries of to-day, 
our granite, shoe, oil-cloth and sand-paper manufactories, 



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we have trade with all parts of our own country and carry 
our exports tar across the seas. 

Passing years have not taken away the beauties of Ilal- 
lowell's wooded hills and sparkling- river, but the cultured 
hand of man has greatly enhanced and developed the won- 
derful work of nature which drew our forefathers here. 

Ilallowell citizens include today not only its immediate 
residents but the sons and daughters gone before, who still 
dwell here in their hearts and send back from the garnered 
stores rich gifts. We behold these gifts today, standing- in 
monuments of enduring stone structures in different parts 
of our city. 

This loyalty to one's native city makes Ilallowell what 
she i» today. We lore the dear old city, and may the rich- 
est blessings of Providence follow her in the future, bring- 
ing, prosperity to her business interests, and peace, health 
and happiness to all her citizens. This is the earnest 
prayer of a Ilallowell boy, speaking of the Ilallowell of 
todav. 



: Hallowell and Its Possibilities." 

W. W. VAUGHAN. 



Mr. President, Felloir r rou % nsmen and Visitors to Hallo- 
well : 

I have been asked to respond to the toast to the ''Future 
Possibilities of Ilallowell.'' Since receiving - Miss Stinson's 
mandate assigning - me to that honorable duty I have had 
three successive and distinct minds on the subject. 

The first was one of self congratulation and rejoicing at 
the easy and pleasant nature of my duty — what greater 
pleasure than to prophesy good things for a place you have 
loved all your lite? 1 had dreamed many dreams of the 
possibilities that might come to the old town and I had 
only to share them with you. What easier than to let 
one's wishes and one's fancy run away with a sufficient 
fraction of the English language — the thing- was done ! I 
had but to share with you the plans for the great manufact- 
uring- interest which was to be induced to come and occupy 
the great empty factory, and give employment to all who 
would, in the very heart of the town. I could frame into 
words my long time dream of the foundation here (on the 



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old Merrick farm) of a real and sound college of agriculture 
that should gather in the town young men from all over 
New England who should come to learn all that practical 
farmer- and modern chemistry and science combined could 
teach them about that art of winning from our fertile lands 
the things which we know so imperfectly to-day how to 
get from it. The land is willing; it is only the knowledge 
which is weak. And I was picturing all the good things 
that such possibilities might bring to the town: the labor 
for those who wished to work, the tenants for those who 
wished to let and the purchasers for our many fine old 
houses, where any wished to sell — I was picturing all the 
good things that might come to us when I fell into my 
second state of mind. I discovered that a prophet with 
that annoying article, a conscience, has an extremely poor 
outfit for that particular trade and would best go out of 
business at once. 1 recalled the old stories of Hallowell as 
the chief business mart of the valley to which all men 
brought their produce to sell and stayed to buy in return, 
till Water street was packed, and then I looked at the 
treble line of rail below my window and I knew that the 
railroad and railway had taken away any hope of that kind 
of prosperity ever returning in the same form. I recalled 
how as a boy I had spent hours at the cotton factory 
watching the coal from Pennsylvania being landed and 
wheeled into the boiler room to turn the myriad wheels 
that were to weave the cotton from Georgia into cloth for 
the growing West: and I knew that the time when you 
could bring cotton from th ' South directly by the coal 
fields of the Middle States and all the way down into Maine, 
and then bring the coal down there to meet it here, were 
gone never to return. The coal and cotton must combine 
nearer to their sources now-a-days in order to meet the 
narrow "margin" of modern manufacturing. The indus- 
tries that we now have, the granite, the shoes, the sand- 
paper, the oil cloth let us devoutly hope may stay with us 
indefinitely. But I perceived that any dreams of great 
additional manufacturing in a town that had no great 
water power and lay between two that had were of loo 
fragile and doubtful texture to stand much handling be- 
fore you. And then I fell into my third state of mind and 
perceived that if my dreams were too sanguine, so too my 
fears were too serious, and that, as usual, the truth lay 
somewhere between the two. I had been looking 1 at Hallo- 




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well as a single unit. It was rather to be looked at as 
part of a great State As the State grew and prospered, 
this town as well as other towns must grow and prosper as 
well. In the old days it had held with Wiscasset, a pros- 
perity not at all shared by the rest of the State. Hallowed 
was a centre of trade and cultivation, but there were only 
a handful of such towns in this whole region and the rest 
was barely settled. The north of the State was an un- 
trodden wilderness* the south a thousand miles of desolate 
and rocky coast. All the prosperity that was came from 
wringing hard earned crops out of a cold climate and bar- 
tering any surplus for goodsfrom the outside. The people 
had in effect only what they could raise. To-day what a 
contrast. Instead of struggling with nature for a living, 
the State is making nature help her earn a living; and a 

g I living too. II >r cold climate instead of a burden has 

b 'come her most valuable asset, and one too. that cannot 
be taken a wax from her. In place of fighting with her 
short and cool summer for a scanty crop, she is saying to 
all the tired and heated dweller- of the Middle States and 
Middle West ••come and share my northern climate and be 
really cool. You may as well come as far as this if you once 
get started; it is really no more trouble than to stop mid- 
wax at some half cool place; and farther than this you 
can't— or won't— go, for it is the eastern end of our coun- 
try." And the people of the warmer lands are accepting 
the invitation in ever increasing numbers. Our thousand 
mile? of desolate and rocky coast are just as rocky as ever, 
but they are no longer desolate. I have sailed along 
nearly every mile of them and I cannot recall a single mile 
where some enterprising seeker for health and rest had not 
discovered the spot before me and yet left ample room for 
thousands more like him who are sure to follow. --The 
Northern Wilderness" has lost it> pine, it is true, and has 
left only spruce enough to last the mills bare twenty years, 
at most, the experts tell us; but it has become almost a 
veritable hunting ground, and if it be only kept for sport, 
and not for -sports" it will earn more for the State in the 
end, when tilled with hotels and camps and clubs and pre- 
sents, as is the Adirondacks to-day, than ever these same 
lakes and forests earned in their piniest days. And all 
these xvell-to-do crowds bring an ever increasing flood of 
ready money into our old State. Much of it comes and 
goes in the give and take of daily living expenses; much 



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stays here permanently in the form of houses and grounds 
and other fixed and taxpaying improvements. This is not 
a fancy picture. It is cold fact, and the growth is not 
transient. Maine lias now one of the fairest futures of any 
state in the Union. It is growing' to be, and will continue 
to be, the recreation ground and the health resort of a 
country running from Boston to Chicago, just as Switzer- 
land is the play-ground of Europe; and this industry can- 
not be taken away from us because it depends on our cli- 
mate, our lakes and shores and islands and these cannot 
change. In all this prosperity Hallowell, like other towns, 
whether on the seashore or inland, must ultimately share. 
The "State" is only so much country and so many towns: 
what the whole has the parts may have also for they make 
up the whole. Moreover money made in wild spots comes 
to rest sooner or later to settled spots. Fine residential 
towns are sure, sooner or later if the State be prosperous, 
to be resided in ; and what more charming residential town 
exists in the State than this old town of ours? It is the 
very Salem of Maine, set in a river valley on sloping hills, 
with all the shady streets, the tine old houses and the good 
old traditions of old Salem itself. Sooner or later, never 
fear, it will be appreciated; not only by those who love it 
now, but by many others as well; and there, then at last, 
our beloved town will regain its old time prosperity only 
in another form, and also have added to it also perhaps 
some of our dreams — who knoAVS? 



"Our Schooldays." 

PROF. A. M. THOMAS. 



It would be pleasant indeed if all the boys and girls who 
went to school in Hallow ell in the old days were here to- 
night. Those were happy days, though sometimes the 
sessions were far too long. Hallowell has long been known 
as a nurse of education and her schools have always been 
of the best. 

In the old Classical Academy w r e had splendid oppor- 
tunities. Some of us made bad use of our chances. But 
whether or no, we have the consolation that was offered 
me in Houlton lately. I had a silver grip tag and wished 
to have it engraved with my initials. The jeweller was 



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more or less under the influence of liquor and succeeded in 
spoiling the inscription. I was inclined to be angry. A 
boon companion of the artisan, partly to defend the jeweller 
and partly to cheer me, said "See here stranger, don't you 
see, that can't be duplicated/' Our schooldays have gone, 
never to be recalled. They cannot be duplicated. 

The first school I attended was on Temple street, near 
the Old South church, and now serves as a tenement. My 
most vivid memory of this school is the initiation I received, 
a slide on the ice with all the boys on top of me. 

My school days were uneventful. To me it seems that 
not all I gained came from lessons. The knocks and rubs 
on the play grounds were also valuable. I can see some of 
the older boys here who thrashed me, and I can remember 
several whom 1 served in the same way. I have no hard 
feelings against the former, and I have no regrets to state; 
nor apologies to make to the latter. 

Our class was the second to graduate from the Hallowell 
Classical school. As 1 remember it the instruction given 
was of the best and the discipline rigid. Such a thing as 
the discontinuance of the school should never have been 
permitted to become a part of history. It is a blot upon 
HallowelPs fame. 

I offer as a toast "Our school days: In view of their 
brevity, their misspent time and the opportunities we lost, 
like one sect of the Jews — Sad-du-cee; in view of the 
progress made, the knowledge gained and the good lessons 
learned, like that other sect of the Jews — Phar-i-see." 



''Literary Hallowell. 



President Butler found it impossible to attend the Reunion 

as he had purposed, but kindly sent the following- letter 

which was read by the Master of Ceremonies. 

My Dear Miss Paye: 

1 am deeply disappointed that I cannot be present at the 
Hallowell Reunion, in response to the courteous invitation 
to Mrs. Butler and myself. "Literary Hallowell," the 
topic assig-ned to me, is one upon which much of interest 
is to be said. By common repute, by documents in your 



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library and in the Lithgow Library, and by many things 
told me by my sister. Ellen Butler, I have conic to know 
that Hallowed has been and is a cent re whence there has 
radiated an abundant and most beneficent literary influence. 
I am personally interested in the maintenance of this 
proposition, tor my maternal grandfather taught in the old 
Academy, and my father's father and my father himself 
preached in one of your pulpits. 

Who is not familiar with the old conundrum 4 'Why is Hal- 
lowed like a book?" with its answer "Because it las to many 
Pages"? For the period of this reunion at least Waterville 
will yield to Hallowed her claim to Mattie Baker Dunn, 
and Augusta must do the like in regard to Emma Hunting- 
ton Nason. The name of Gen. Hubbard will always be 
instantly recalled when one thinks of •• Literary Hallowed."* 
and in order of climax the name of Professor Richardson 
may well stand at 'The End of the Beginning" of this 

list". 

If one turns to the past one encounters close at hand Mr. 
Burr and his work at the Classical Institute. More remote- 
ly, one comes upon the. products of your publishing houses 
in former times. Three-quarters of a century ago Hallo- 
well stood second in the State only to Portland as a pub- 
lishing centre, and one has only to examine the shelves in 
your own library and the historical room in the Lithgow 
Library to learn that for a century Hallowed has had good 
training to the grateful -appreciation of this part of New 
England for her encouragement and distribution of litera- 
ture. 

While Hallowed has good ground for receiving congratu- 
lations as a literary community at the present time, there 
should be no feeling that her pre-eminence in the past is a 
thing belonging to the past only. It is in the nature of 
things that the literary centres at the present time should 
be the few great cities. For Hallowed to have such a 
record and to have been prominent as a literary centre in 
the days when such a thing was possible, is her everlasting- 
honor. Her past history is a part of her present glory. 
Cordially yours. 

Nathaniel Butler. 



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"Hallowell in the War." 

GEN. GEO. H. NYE. 



This has been a precious day to me, spent in my old 
home, among familiar places and with old schoolmates: 
fifty-four years ago 1 went to work in the old cotton mill 
that has been idle so long. 

I am to represent Hallowell in the war. No Maine 
regiment went to the front without a Hallowell boy in its 
ranks; but the third, sixth and ninth contained the larger 
numbers. It was thirty-eight years ago that the 3rd Maine 
Regiment left Washington for Bull Run, where it received 
it> first baptism of tire. It served faithfully through the 
war and was in many bloody battles. The greatest test of 
its* service lies in yonder graveyard. Last Memorial Day 
the John B. Hubbard Post decorated one hundred graves 
of veterans. 

I have looked the cemetery over and have been unable to 
find the grave of my grandfather, who fifty-five years ago 
told me stories of the battles of the Revolution. Why are 
not the graves of the Revolutionary soldiers marked and 
decorated? 

Sixty-five years ago Judge Baker was a prominent man 
in Hallowell. and interested ; in the schools. He seemed to 
mean old man even then. One day he brought into the 
school an aged man. a Mr. Sanford. who addressed us 
briefly. He said: "The Spartans were brave: at their 
games they had three speeches, one by a retired soldier, 
one by a veteran still in the service, the third by a youth 
still too young to enter the army. The first would say. •! 
have served my country in my youth, now I am old and 
cannot.' The second said. -We will conquer or die.' And 
the third, with the hope and buoyancy of youth, said. 
•What we can do, no one can tell, but we will excel." 
What was true then is true now. 

The boys of to-day are in better condition to tight than 
we of a generation ago. The flag and its meaning were 
little known then. I remember that after the grand review 
of the army in Washington in 1<S(J5. my brigade went to 
Charleston, where we were in charge of affairs while 
people were adjusting themselves to the new conditions. 
There was no flag-pole, but when it came and the day of 
the Hag-raising had arrived, just as the flag was unfurled. 



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one old negro was seen to fall on his knees and with hands 
clasped to mutter to himself a prayer of thankfulness. He 
knew what the flag meant — for he was free. If we had 
made peace after the battle of Bull Run, it would have 
been a temporary arrangement, for it would have left the 
problems unsettled, whose attempted solution had brought 
on the war. 

It is a pity that your cotton mill is idle. I know of 
scores of mills, making the same class of goods as were 
made here, that are now running night and day. Now is 
the time to begin again the manufacture of cotton goods. 
lint my time is gone. I must forbear from more words. 



'Reminiscences of Hallo-well." 

E. ROWELL. 



Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: 

1 do not feel responsible for the fact that I was not born 
in Hallowell. My parents providentially lived in the good 
old town of Livermore. But for the past sixty years 1 
have been a resident of Hallowell, and as my wife and 
children were born here, it may not be presumptuous for 
me to claim to be a native of Hallowell by brevet. 

Reminiscences of the past might be multiplied indefinite- 
ly, but I can only refer briefly to a few of the more promi- 
nent men of sixty years ago, and among them Parson 
(rillett, dispensing tlu rugged gospel of the time in black 
silk gloves. That silver haired gentleman of the old school, 
T. B. Merrick, whose noble bearing greatly impressed my 
youthful fancy. Captain Manning with measured tread, 
removing loose pebbles from the streets with his formidable 
cane. Johnny Stringer with his basket of clothes pins on 
his arm and candy in his pocket for expectant children. 
The elder Vaughans. (Marks, Pages, Flaggs, Grants, Watts, 
Bonds and numerous others who for lack of time I will 
not mention. 

The business interests of Hallowell were well cared for 
and Hallowell was the central market of the county and 
state, as well as of local trade. This was the head of 
navigation, and passengers and freight were transported to 
and from Boston by schooners commanded by Captains 
Blish, Brown, Watts and others. This was before the 



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advent of steamboats and railroads. I well remember 
when a boy, of reading the advertisement in the old "Ad- 
vocate" announcing the sailing of the "schooner Banner" 
Captain Blish, for Boston. The trip would sometimes be 
lengthened into weeks by storms and head winds. 

All this has changed. A daily and almost hourly com- 
munication may be had with all parts of our own and other 
states. But I must forbear. And as speech is silvern and 
silence golden, L must carry out my allegiance to the 
"gold standard" and not inflict a speech upon you. 



'What Should Our Birth-Place Mean to Us?" 

REV. D. E. MILLER. 



Brevity is the soul of wit. The occasion is a grand one, 
but the lateness of the hour demands a brief address from 
me. AVhen we dedicate our next City Hall, if I am in 
town, you can come and hear me deliver a speech. 

Our birth-place means love of home and native city, an 
instinct found in all peoples. It means a start in life, im- 
portant, for it shapes our future life and character. 

No one can look back to the place of his birth without a 
tender thought and prayer for the future prosperity of the 
old home. Let this day then beget a noble purpose to 
make the "Hallowell of to-day" surpass the greatness of 
her olden days: to see to it that her present possibilities 
are fully realized; to keep her school and literary life up 
to a high standard; to continue her martial spirit, lighting 
for "civic virtue." Then shall they who meet to dedicate 
the next new City Hall have pleasant reminiscences of this 
day and generation. 

The addresses of Major Rowell and Rev. Mr. Miller were 
given under the disadvantage of lateness of the hour and 
some unavoidable confusion, and were therefore consider- 
ably abbreviated; Mr. Miller very kindly accepted the 
place of another speaker, with very brief time for prepara- 
tion. Both gentlemen added liberally to the interest in the 
exercises. 

At the close of the literary exercises, refreshments were 
served; ice cream, strawberries, cake, coffee and iced lem- 



onade. The ladies had provided an abundant array, and 
all were generously served. 

The success of the Reunion was due to the untiring work 
of the ladies of the Improvement Society, supplemented by 
the generous assistance of visitors. The beautiful flag, 
which floated over the hall, was the gift of Lieut. H. A. 
Johnson. Worcester, Ma><.. and generous subscriptions re- 
ceived from others made the Reunion more than successful 
financially. 

Numerous good wishes for the coming year were ex~ 
changed as the hour for "breaking ranks*' arrived— and 
many were the expressions of hope that another reunion 
should occur in Hallowed. 

The younger people were enjoying a short order of dances 
as the reunion proper ended. Surely the Reunion was m 
success. 



REUNION LETTERS. 



By courtesy of the Correspondence Committee, we pre- 
sent a portion of the very interesting letters received in the 
course of preparation for the Reunion. 

From a Boy of 1822. 



Boston, July 11, l$<jy. 
'•As a boy of 1822" it's not convenient to he with yon on 
your "Home Coming' Day" so I send congratulations to 
the home comers. May your celebration be as bright as 
the morning sun as it comes over the eastern hills of 
Chelsea — once Hallowell; its course run as smoothly as our 
beloved Kennebec in the sunshine of summer-time; its 
music, as sweet and melodious as the music of the "( Jascade" 
in the old Vaughan brook used to be in boyhood days: it- 
program, as rich as the aromatic perfume of "Merrick 
Pines" used to be before the woodman's axe did not spare 
those trees; its hospilality, as broad and generous as the 
Vaughan acres of the olden time; and its memories, as 
enduring as "the Gardiner ledges out over the hills." 
May the eloquence of its occasion awaken the Dumonts, 
the Spragues, the Otises,to listen to the words that shall stir 
men's and women's hearts; and the closing hour of the da v 
leave as resplendent associations as the glories of the 
setting sun over "Powder House Hill;" and the same old 
stars set their night watch over the sleepers "on the plains" 
and the happy hearts that have been made glad with the 
old folks, awl the young folks, at home. 
Yours very truly, 

Gorham I). Oilman. 



From a Generous Friend of Hallowell. 



New York, July 7, 1899. 
Your very kind letter has remained so long unanswered 
only because I hoped to give the answer you asked. It is 
today, for the first time, that I feel constrained to say that 



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[ cannot be in Hallowell od the 12th. This decision, which 
I have tried to avoid, is quite unwelcome to myself, and I 
assure you it was only reached with very good reasons. 

My sincere good wishes are with all the citizens of Hal- 
lowell, of the present time and of the old time. I trust 
their meeting will be a happy occasion for themselves and 

for the city. 

With kind regards, 

Thomas H. Hubbard. 



From a Distinguished Soldier. 



Burlington, VI., June 12, 1899. 

What a beautiful greeting you young ladies sent me. It 
would delight me to be present at your reunion, but I 
think my time is already under mortgage for that date. I 
remember everybody in Hallowell. who lived in ancient 
times and associated" with me; better, I think, than some of 
them remember the small boy who went to Mr. Burnham's 
school and Sunday School. 

I am glad that you are to have a beautiful City Hall, 
and that Hallowell is renewing her youth. Sometime I 
hope to see you all again. 

O. O. Howard. 



From a Veteran Resident of Washington. 



Washington, D. C, July 8, 1899. 

I have received a paper of date May 18, 1899, with the 
caption, "To the sons and daughters of Hallowell, greeting.'" 
relative to "the dedication of the new and beautiful City 
Hall." I am proud that I am a native of Hallowell, and 
although nearly half a century has passed since I dwelt 
there, fond memory often brings before me the scenes and 
events the inhabitants and incidents of the old town of my 
boyhood days. 

The old City Hall I well remember, as I attended the 
grammar school there for some years. Since I left Hallo- 
well I have been considerable of a wanderer, having traveled 
over the greater part of my own country, Canada and the 



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Bermudas, and besides have made eleven voyages to En- 
rope, and have traversed all parts of it. 

As a son of old Hallowell, I return heartily my greeting 
to those dear hearts at home that will assemble at the dedi- 
cation. During the passing hours of that memorable day, 
my heart will be rilled with loving, kindly thoughts for the 
old town and the dwellers therein. Many of the natives of 
Hallowell are scattered the wide world over, but of me it 
can be said truly that I cherish a warm and loving memory 
of the old town of my birth, and for its institutions and 
people l have none but the heartiest good wishes. 

Very truly yours, 

E. T. Getohell, 



From a Lady Deeply Interested in Hallowell. 



Maiden, Mass., June 9, 1899. 

It gave me much pleasure to receive your very kind 
letter of May loth with its cm-dial invitation to attend the 
reunion of past and present residents of dear old Hallowell 
on July 12th. 

I should very much enjoy meeting the dear friends who 
still remain, and it will be an especial pleasure to listen to 
an address from Gen. Thomas Hubbard, and also Prof. 
Charles Richardson, both quite young in 1851 when I left 
there — their parents being very dear and intimate friends 
of mine. 

I do indeed feel interested in the improvements of the 
dear old town, and congratulate you that a Library and 
"Town Hall" have been built after the modern style, and 
the venerable Hallowell House "rejuvenated'' to entertain 
its guests with the old time hospitality and popularity, as 
it was for many years considered the finest hotel in the 
State. These improvements will make the City more 
attractive and "like the home we left behind us" before the 
railroad invaded the quiet of its beautiful streets. 
Sincerely yours, 

Sarah E. Talbot. 



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Regrets from an Absent One. 



l*rovi(ltnce, R. /.. June 12th. 

It is with sincere regret that neither my brothers, sisters 
nor myself can accept your kind invitation to visit dear old 
Hallowell and unite with her sons and daughters in the 
celebration they purpose giving her on July twelfth. I 
trust, however, so many will be present at this "Home 
Coming" that the absent ones will not be missed, and that 
the ••lark" will be a perfect success and most pleasurable 
event. With your beautiful Public Library and the new 
City Hall, you are to dedicate on this auspicious occasion, 
old Hallowell seems to be '-putting on airs." With her 
natural advantages she might be one of the most charming 
places on the beautiful Kennebec. 

Many thanks for your kindly mention of our little 
meeting last year. Sister Augusta and I often refer to it 
with pleasure. 

With my best regards, in which Augusta joins, and 
which we both would extend to Miss Oilman, 1 am 
Very cordially yours, 

Amelia B. McAlslan. 



From an Ardent Westerner. 



Cedar Rapid*, Iowa. June 19. 

In looking over the names of the committee I find yours, 
and as the names of Page and Oilman are names of 
hallowed memory, I take pleasure in writing you that Mrs. 
Owen and myself expect to be at the reunion at the time 
designated by the committee, and we are looking forward 
to the happy event with large expectations. 

To meet old friends after a lapse of years, and to ex- 
change views to see if we have realized our ideals in life to 
their fullest extent, will form a part of our meeting. 

I believe it will be productive of much good, and it may 
be the last meeting of many of us until we all meet in the 
eternal city. 

Yours very truly, 

J. H. Owen. 




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From a Lover of His Childhood's Home. 



Seal Harbor, June 15. 

I wish to thank you very much for the invitation to the 
Reunion in dear old Hallowell this summer, for T have a 
very tender feeling- for my native place, with its memories 
of my father and mother and of so many old friends now 
passed on. Nothing- can ever occupy the same place as 
one's childhood's home. I wish most sincerely that I 
could be with you, and indeed it is a serious disappoint- 
ment to me that I cannot; but I am afraid it is out of the 
question for I find travelling pretty trying-, especially in 
hot weather. I shall be very much interested in hearing- a 
full account of the occasion, and I very much hope my 
bro'ther will be able to be present. I know he is very 
earnest to be present, and will if it is a possible thing, ft 
is very gratifying to believe there will be some old friends 
who will take pleasure in seeing the likeness of my father 
which will be in your Library before thai lime.' With 
best wishes for the success of your efforts, and kind 
remembrances to any who may have known me as a 
Hallowell boy. I am 

Very sincerely yours, 

A. A. Vaughan. 



From an Old Resident of Hallowell. 



Brooklyn, June 30th. 

I thank you most heartily for your kind invitation to 
attend the Reunion on July 12th. I deeply regret that 
owing to my summer arrangements 1 shall be obliged to 
decline. 

Old residents of Hallowell look back with pride and 
affection to their former home, and hear with pleasure of 
any evidence of her increasing prosperity. 
Very cordially yours, 

Lydia C. Tupper. 



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From One Whose Heart is in Hallowell. 



Bangor, Me., July 12. 

My heart is in Hallowell to-day, you may be sure, and 1 
wish I could listen to the exercises of the afternoon and 
evening, but this is impossible. 

My last summer's visit ended so seriously — in fact my 
year's illness dates from that time — that I feel convinced 
that home is the best place for me now: but oh dear — the 
thought of a Reunion in Hallowell and myself not "in it** 
is bitter and makes me both lonely and homesick! 

I am hoping to see a full account of the day's doings in 
my next Hegitster and must try to be contented with that. 

Ellen II. Butler. 



From a Son of Good Old Hallowell. 



Portland. J/e., May 27. 

I am in receipt of the kind invitation of your committee 
to be present at the Reunion of former Hallowell residents, 
and assure you that it will give me great pleasure to be 
present. 1 shall always have a warm place in my heart for 
good old Hallowell. 

With best wishes for its prosperity and for the success of 
the Reunion I, am 

Very truly yours, 

Geo. S. Rowell. 



REGISTER OF VISITORS. 



James W. Bradbury; Augusta. 

A. W. Fowles, Lewiston. 

Mrs. Mary C. Avery, Exeter. X. II. 

Lizzie A. Small. Farmingdale. 

G. T. Stevens and wife, Augusta. 

Laura B. Wright, Durham. 

Grorham C. Wilson, Portland. 

Mrs. Virginia EL Curtis, New Haven. Conn. 

Miss Cordelia M. Chadwick, New Haven. Conn. 

J. B. P. Day, Castana, Lowa. 

Elsie Yenner Day. Castana, Iowa. 

Mrs. Harriet .Jones. Castana, Iowa. 

Fred'k A. Gardiner, Newton Centre. Mass. 

Mrs. Fred'k A. Gardiner, Newton Centre Mass. 

Mrs. A. H. Phaneuf and daughter, Lewiston. 

Mrs. Chas. Trafton, Waterville. 

Rena M. Merrill, West Gardiner. 

Lottie M. Wood, West Gardiner. 

Eusena A. Douglass, Hallowed. 

Win. S. Grant, Farming-dale. 

Nora G. Rice, Farmingdale. 

Mrs. Lizzie P. Noyes, Lynn, Mass. 

Fannie M. Noyes, Lynn, Mass. 

Annie M. Lakeman, Gloucester, Mass. 

Mrs. Reuben Brooks, Gloucester. Mass. 

Mrs. J. C. Flagg, Richmond. 

Mrs. Richard Flanagan, Portland. 

Mrs. Harriet E. Fuller, Gardiner. 

Marie Ransom, N. Y. City. 

Alice Fuller Gray, Gardiner. 

Nelson H. Johnson, Maiden, Mass. 

Frank E. Curtis, Poland Springs. 

Wm. H. Stantial. Richmond. 

Delinda A. Willis, Fall River, Mass. 

Mr. and Mrs. L. I). Pillsbury, Augusta. 

Mrs. Philbrook, Decatur, 111. 

Geo. R. Smith, Bangor. 

E. H. Fellows, Boston. 

Geo. W. Hubbard, Worcester, Mass. 

Lizzie F. Hubbard, Worcester, Mass. 



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Francis W. Vaughan. Cambridge, Mass. 

Caroline Vaughan Gardiner, Cambridge, Mass 

Emma J. Ferguson, Hartford, Conn. 

Mrs. Mina Hill Frost. Chelsea, Mass. 

Dr. C. T. Fisk, Lewiston. 

Mrs. Ella O. Hersey Fisk, Lewiston. 

J. B. Dresser, Woodfords. 

Mrs. Fannie Hersey Dresser. Woodfords. 

Mrs. H. L. Brown, Brooklyn. X. Y. 

(has. F. Richardson, Hanover. N. H. 

Caroline Agry Edmunds. Newton, Mass. 

Adelaide X. Moulton, Portland. 

Alex Doyle, Xew York City. 

Fannie B. Dovle, Xew York City. 

H. X T . Webber, Waterville. 

Helen Leigh Webber, Waterville. 

H. A. Johnson, Worcester, Mass. 

Mrs. H. A. Johnson, Worcester. Mass. 

F. Herbert Parlin, Ea. Winthrop. 

Elizabeth A. Thompson, Augusta. 

Mrs. I. F. Thompson, Augusta. 

Mrs. Xellie M. Parlin, Ea. Winthrop. 

Mrs. Geo. C. Libby, Augusta. 

Mrs. Geo. Woodward, Gardiner. 

Mrs. M. Woodward, Gardiner. 

A. M. Thomas, Houlton. 

Mrs. Geo. B. Safford, Skowhegan. 

Mrs. Gusta Murray, Gardiner. 

Mrs. Mary A. Porter, Xewburyport, Mass. 

Mrs. Annie E. Soule, Gardiner. 

Mrs. M. A. Davenport, Gardiner. 

Mrs. Ann Palmer, San Francisco, Cal. 

Mrs. E. W. Atwood, Gardiner. 

John F. Hill, Augusta. 

Sidney M. Bird, Rockland. 

Mrs. John Sabin, Gardiner. 

A. E. Harlow, Lewiston. 

Miss Etta Towle, Lewiston. 

Mrs. Fred E. McCausland, Gardiner. 

Grace Parker Doyle, Xew York. 

Mr. and Mrs. E. Hartshorn, Augusta. 

Mrs. Thomas Farnham, Augusta. 

Mrs. F. B. Smith, Augusta. 

Mrs. X. G. Hunton, Readtield. 



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William J. Kilburn, New Bedford, Mass. 

Augusta P. Aiken Kilburn. Xew Bedford, Mass. 

Mrs. G. W. Hunton, Readfield. 

W. II. Fuller. Skowhegan. 

G. \V. Hunton, Readfield. 

('has. W. Thomas, Portland. 

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Longfellow, Monmouth. 

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Williams, Philadelphia. 

W. F. Jordan, Brookline, Mass. 

Robert C. Edson, Worcester, Mass. 

.Mrs. Lendall Titcomb, Augusta. 

Wm. Caldwell Titcomb, Augusta. 

Mrs. Annie Fuller Boyle, Augusta. 

Mrs. Lizzie Andrews Cooper, Richmond. 

Miss Caro Cooper. Richmond. 

Mabel R. Porter. Newburyport, Mass. 

Llewellyn Powers, x^ugusta. 

John M. Glidden, Augusta. 

Henry P. Page Medford, Mass. 

Mrs. H. R. Page, Medford, Mass. 

Chas. H. Thing. 

Jackson M. Libby, Augusta. 

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Thompson, Augusta. 

Mrs. S. Hansom, Xew York. 

Jennie S. Gloster, Gallatin, Tenn. 

Mrs. Emma Safford, Gardiner. 

Miss Mary Safford, Gardiner. 

Mrs. A. C. Ney, Philadelphia, 

Mrs. Geo. X. Gate, Marlboro, Mass. 

Mrs. Chas. Coggins, Surry. 

Mrs. Martha Prescott Greenwood, Maiden. Mass. 

Elizabeth McLaughlin, Augusta. 

Carrie E. Brooks, Augusta. 

Lucy M. Childs, Portland. 

Ella A. Childs Kenison, Portland. 

Julia R. F. Miller, Boston. 

Ethelyn F. Barber, Milford, X. H. 

Gertrude A. Cox, Gardiner. 

Caroline II. Cox, Gardiner. 

Kate G. Dole, Maiden, Mass. 

Alice Burnham, Worcester, Mass. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Nye, Auburn. 

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wiley, Gardiner. 

T. B. Merrick, Germantown, Penn. 



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Bertha Vaughan Merrick. Grermantown, Perm. 

Miranda P. Norton. Augusta. 

W. F. Livingstone, Augusta. 

Gen. Geo. H. Nye, So. Natick, Mass. 

Mrs. Clara M. Burr, So. Natick, Mass. 

Chas. E. Nye, West Medford, Mass. 

Margaret K. Foster, Augusta. 

Susan Stantial True, Litchfield. 

Stephen F. Stantial, Boston. 

Thomas B. Stantial. Melrose, Mass. 

Clara Stantial. Richmond. 

Mrs. Henry Tallman, Dorchester, Mass. 

Mrs. S. J. Webb, Dorchester, Mass. 

Mrs. Adelaide Wiley Moore, Gardiner. 

Gustavus Moore, Gardiner. 

Mrs. Susan Wiley Landers, Gardiner. 

Mrs. Nancy Russell, Augusta. 

\iiss Lizzie Russell, Augusta. 

Miss Inez Russell, Augusta. 

Mrs. O'Donnell and daughter. Rockland. 

Chas. H. Nason, Augusta. 

Emma Huntington Nason, Augusta. 

Alice Mayo Huntington, Augusta. 

Mrs. Martha H. Mullikcn, Augusta. 

Miss Julia M. Andrews, Augusta. 

Mrs. Helen O. Glazier, Medford, Mas-. 

Mrs. Henry Sampson, New York. 

Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Page, Boston. 

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gihnan. Newton, Mass. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stickney, Chelsea, Mass. 

Mrs. J. M. Whitney, Gardiner. 

Mrs. Hattie Goodwin Billings. Boston. 

Geo. Herris Billings, Boston. 

Mrs. Geo. F. Bodwell, Chicago. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Tuck Peirce, Kinderhook. N. Y 

Will A. Tuck, California. 

Dan'l Clark and wife. Richmond. 

Geo. S. Rowell and wife, Portland. 

.1. Walter Britton, Auburn. 

J. C. Flagg, Richmond. 

Liny M /Emmons. Kittery Point. 

Grace Johnson, Cambridgeport. 

John N. Taylor, Boston. 

Lee H. Howard, Jamaica Plains. Mass. 

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S. E. Howe Pitman, Salem, Mass. 

Mrs. Sarah Hinckley, Augusta. 

Miss Jennie Hinckley. " 

Mrs. Annie P. Smith. " 

Miss Helen Wilder. Augusta. 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Allen, Augusta. 

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Choate, North Whitefield. 

Mr. Solon Haskell Brandt. Charlestown, Mass. 

Mrs. Lizzie Leeman Brandt, Charlestown, Mass. 

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Hawes, Augusta. 



COMMITTEES. 



Executive. — Miss E. G. Otis, Mr. L. 1). Merchant, Mrs. 

F. G. Russell. Mr. H. P. Clearwater. Miss K. M. 

Beeman. 
Reception. — Mayor and Mrs. Safford, Mr. and Mrs. 

Benjamin Yanghan. Mr. and Mrs. James Atkins. Miss 

A. F. Page, Miss E. G. Otis. 

BUILD 1 NG COMM ETTEE : 

Hon. James H. Leigh, Ben Tenney and Geo. A. Safford. 

Correspondence. — Miss A. F. Page. Mrs. Ben Tenney. 

Miss E. (). French, Miss G. A. Leigh. Miss C. L. 

Stinson. 
Entertainment. — Mrs. Brenda Freese, Miss K. M. Bee- 
man. Miss J. M. Wells. Mr. F. S. Wingate. Mr. J. E. 

Lunt, Mr. H. P. Clearwater. 
Refreshments. — Messrs. J. F. Bodwell. L. 1). Merchant. 

H. P. Clearwater. 
Decorations. — Mrs. M. M. Johnson. Miss E. McClench, 

Miss E. L. Beeman, Miss B. M. McClench. Miss G. E. 

AVells, Miss Georgia McClench. 
Printing. — W. F. Marston. 

This Reunion Pamphlet, 25 cents per copy post-paid, 
maybe obtained by remitting- to W. F. Marston, Publisher. 
Hallowell, Me. 

Copies on sale at Limt & Brann's, L64 Water St.. 
Hallowell, Me. 



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